John Eastman, a onetime attorney to former President Trump, said he and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case “did nothing wrong” in an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday evening.
“We did nothing wrong. We were challenging the election for what even Vice President [Mike] Pence described as serious allegations of fraud and numerous instances of officials violating state law,” Eastman told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. “And if we can’t speak out about that, then our freedom of speech, our right to petition the government for redress of grievances are gone.”
In the Fox News interview Tuesday, Eastman doubled down on his election fraud claims – claims which Ingraham pushed back against numerous times.
“I had lots of evidence of fraud,” Eastman said.
“I haven’t seen that evidence, and I’m always wanting to see everything…I’d love to see that evidence,” Ingraham said.
He’s under criminal indictment, you expect him to just admit that it was a scam, had no legal merit, and would not stand up in court?
Oh, wait:
https://time.com/6188491/john-eastman-jan-6-testimony-trump/
So they’re sticking with the “we’re just asking questions” defense.
The fun part is we get to see how that holds up in a court of law, with cameras.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
John Eastman, a onetime attorney to former President Trump, said he and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case “did nothing wrong” in an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday evening.
We were challenging the election for what even Vice President [Mike] Pence described as serious allegations of fraud and numerous instances of officials violating state law,” Eastman told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.
Eastman and 18 others, including Trump, face a combined 41 charges in a sweeping racketeering case brought by Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis, alleging they sought to overturn the state’s election results to keep Trump in power.
Eastman also questioned the basis for the state Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act charges he and the other 18 defendants face, which Ingraham posited requires the defendants to have believed their election fraud claims were “phony” and still decided to go forward with overturning the election results.
The Trump lawyer claimed the indictment amounts to an effort to “stifle” people from receiving legal representation when raising challenges to election results.
Eastman surrendered at the Fulton County jail last week over the nine counts he faces, ranging from conspiring to commit false statements and writings, and forgery, to the RICO charges.
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